At dawn the next day, Yu Zhen, who had not slept all night, didn't bother to eat breakfast, so he rushed to Zhou's mansion with Yu Shaoshang to ask to see Zhou Yun. The housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion told Yu Zhen that Zhou Yun had just gone out to the west of the city, saying that he had asked a few craftsmen to go to the site to have a look and plan the construction of Yizhuang. Yu Zhen had no choice but to sit in the hall and wait for Zhou Yun to come back. I waited for nearly two hours, and I don't know how many times the tea leaves in the teacup were changed.

Yu Shaoshang was a little uncontrollable: "Dad, Zhou Yun's old man is a little too much, we came to the door early in the morning, and he actually let us sit here for a morning." ”

Yu Zhen said angrily: "Shut up, when has this been, what kind of shelf are you putting up." Now the situation is stronger than people, who makes us have to ask for others now. If we win this time, will you let him wait? Be more patient, whether our Yu family can survive this difficult time depends on whether people are willing to let us go. ”

After waiting for another stick of incense, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and I only heard Zhou Yun's hearty laughter: "Rare guest, rare guest." Brother Yu, what kind of wind blew you, I led the craftsman to the west of the city early in the morning to see how to repair Yizhuang, just now the housekeeper told me that Brother Yu has been waiting for me here all morning, I really can't stand the two, let Brother Yu and the young merchant wait for a long time, I have told the housekeeper to prepare the wine and food, at noon we brothers have a good drink, I apologize to you. Ha ha. ”

Yu Zhen secretly complained in his heart, as soon as you see me, you mentioned the matter of building Yizhuang, which makes me feel in the mood to drink with you. But at this time, he could only smile and say: "Brother Yun, as soon as the news of your intention to build Yizhuang came out, my little brother and I haven't slept well in the past two days. ”

Zhou Yun Zhengse said: "Brother Yu, where is this, you are the richest man in Xiaocang City, your business is bigger than me, and your qualifications are older than me, and you won seven of the nine pieces of land in this auction, and I lost to Brother Yu miserably." When I came back, I was disheartened, thinking that I was far inferior to my brother in this business, so I would stop doing business in the future and switch to public welfare. Now that there is chaos everywhere and the corpses of people who have died of starvation are everywhere, I wonder if I should build two villages, so that the displaced people will not die and have no place to stay. ”

Yu Zhen scolded in his heart, you just continue to make it up, it's true that there is chaos outside, but what's the matter with this Xiaocang City, Xiaocang City is a peaceful place, at most, there are more homeless people, how can it be as miserable as you say.

Yu Zhen knew that if he didn't give in directly, Zhou Yun would not get into the topic, and he could consume himself to death just by delaying time, so he said: "Brother Yun, I know that I have done a little bit in many things over the years, and I have used a lot of means to suppress your Zhou family, but these are all commercial competitions, and I don't think there is anything wrong with me doing this." It's just that this time I lost a little unclear, to be honest, I admire you for thinking of such a strategy, but how did you convince Lord Taishou, you want to build a righteous village in the west of the city, which contradicts his policy of developing the west of the city, why didn't he stop you? ”

Zhou Yun was in a good mood when he saw Yu Zhenfu softly admitting defeat, and said with a smile: "It doesn't hurt to tell you, in fact, I went to Lord Taishou before the auction started, and told him all about my plan, and only after Lord Taishou agreed, I dared to buy two of the pieces of land for 400,000 taels of silver." Not only that, but of the 700,000 taels of silver I brought that day, 200,000 taels were borrowed for me by Lord Taishou. ”

Yu Zhen was even more puzzled after hearing this: "Then why does Lord Taishou want to deal with Yu, Yu is not less in Taishou on weekdays, if the Yu family falls, what good will it do to Song Taishou, and every year there is less filial piety money for the Yu family." ”

Zhou Yun saw that Yu Zhen hadn't opened his mind yet, and said: "Brother Yu, why don't you understand, no wonder you lose, you must know that we are just an ordinary people, at best, we have a little more silver, but Brother Yu, you rely on your own money, often meddle in the government affairs of Taishou, let him do what you want, and often speak disrespectfully, and claim to be the richest man in Kokura City." Do you think all the money you've earned over the years belongs to your family? You are wrong, you don't understand that your wealth is actually earned by the government for you to earn, and you can earn it, if the government doesn't want you to earn it, you won't be able to earn a copper plate. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yun glanced at Yu Shaoshang who was standing next to him again, and continued: "There are also several sons of Brother Yu, who are usually arrogant and domineering, bullying the weak, how many people in the city are not afraid of your Yu family?" And how many people don't want to see your Yu family fall? You are still proud to make the people afraid of you, and in this case, there are many people who come to you to collect debts, right? I ask you how to behave like this at home, how can Lord Taishou tolerate you, and how can the people in the city tolerate you. ”

After saying that, Yu was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat: "Brother Yun's words made me pause, I usually don't think about it." It's also strange that I don't stand as tall as you, I can't see as well as you, and I don't think it's a big deal to do those things I do on weekdays, but I didn't expect that all of them broke out as soon as something happened this time, and I really didn't lose unjustly. ”

Zhou Yun saw that Yu Zhen realized his mistake, so he no longer hid it from him: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, in fact, these are not what I thought of, and others mentioned me, including this time, the strategy was all thought up by him, so you didn't lose to me, but to him." He was just a fourteen-year-old kid named Shi Luosheng. Just a few days ago, his mother was still selling vegetables in the market, but she was knocked down by the carriage of the young merchant son, and her leg was also crushed, the young merchant boy not only did not apologize to others, but also beat her severely, and it didn't count after the beating, the young merchant boy also wanted others to get out of the small warehouse city, and he didn't want to see her in the small warehouse city again in the future, this is forcing people to be anxious, otherwise people would not think about how to fight back against you, the high young master of the Yu family. ”

When Yu Zhen heard that it was Yu Shaoshang who caused the trouble, he turned his head and glared at him fiercely, but Yu Shaoshang seemed to be recalling who the person who was beaten by him was, maybe there were too many people who had been beaten, and he couldn't remember it anymore.

Yu Zhen scolded: "It's all to blame Shaoshang for this brute act, is this little brother in the house now?" I asked Shaoshang to kowtow to his mother and admit his mistake. ”

Zhou Yun said: "He should still be in the academy now, kowtow and admit his mistakes, this child's mother will only be more scared if she sees Young Master Yu now." ”

Yu Zhen is just talking, naturally he will not really let his son kowtow to a peasant woman to admit his mistakes, not to mention that whether the Yu family can keep it now has nothing to do with the child, the key is to work Zhou Yun and Song Tai.

Yu Zhen hesitated for a moment and continued to ask: "Junior brother still wants to ask another question in the end, what do I need to do, Brother Yun and Master Taishou are willing to let me go this time?" ”

Zhou Yun thought for a while and said: "Lord Taishou also knows your current situation, in addition to owing the Huang family 400,000 taels of silver, you also owe Li Hu 100,000 taels of silver, so the government is willing to use 500,000 taels of silver to buy back the seven pieces of land in your hand, and at the same time, there are all the properties of the Yu family in Kokura City, and after this, your Yu family will leave Kokura City." ”

Yu Zhen heard this condition, and was speechless. Yu Shaoshang on the side couldn't help but say: "Uncle Zhou, this is too ruthless, we spent more than 1.3 million taels of silver to buy the land, and it was only three days after we got it, and now we have to sell it for 500,000 taels of silver, and we have to take all the properties of my Yu family in Xiaocang City, this ...... It's really unacceptable to us. ”

Zhou Yun didn't pay attention to Yu Shaoshang, looked at Yu Zhen and said coldly: "Brother Yu, do you mean the same as Ling Gongzi?" ”

Yu Zhen nodded painfully and said, "I agreed, all the properties of the Yu family in Xiaocang City, including the seven newly auctioned land, and 500,000 taels of silver will be transferred to you." Alas, after working hard all my life, I ended up making wedding dresses for others. After saying this, Yu Zhen seemed to be a few years older in an instant, sitting weakly in the chair, and his eyes lost their brilliance. Yu Zhen clearly knew that if he didn't agree, it would only be worse in the end, Zhou Yun could take the matter of building Yizhuang and drag it to the Yu family, but the Yu family couldn't afford it, and finally had to return to the negotiation table.

Although Zhou Yun usually hates Yu Zhen, but now he has a little unbearable when he sees him like this, and comforts: "Although Brother Yu has lost a little bit this time, after all, the Yu family is also a big business, in addition to Xiaocang, there are also many industries in other cities, with Brother Yu's ability, it is not impossible for him to make a comeback." ”

Yu Zhen sighed and said, "I'm old, and after this time, I don't have the ambition I had when I was young. Fortunately, I still have some family wealth, and it is not too much of a problem to be a rich man for the rest of my life. However, Shaoshang, you are still young, and the lessons of this time are all because of you, you have to reflect well, as for whether the Yu family can make a comeback in the future, it all depends on how you reflect. ”

Yu Shaoshang lowered his head in shame: "Remember today's lesson. ”

Yu Zhen said to Zhou Yun again: "Brother Yun, after I deal with the rest of the things in the past few days, my Yu family will move out of Xiaocang City." I'm afraid that I won't have a chance to see you again in the future, Brother Yun, take care of yourself. After speaking, he left the Zhou Mansion in frustration.

Three days later, the Yu family declared bankruptcy, and all of the Yu family's properties in Kokura Castle, including the seven plots of land in the west of the city, were mortgaged to the government.

Five days later, Yu Zhen left Ogura Castle with his family.

Ten days later, the city announced that due to the bankruptcy of the Yu family, the seven pieces of land originally mortgaged in the hands of the government and all the properties in the city could no longer be redeemed, and the government decided to re-auction the seven pieces of land at a later date, and at the same time, in order to ensure the fairness of the auction, with the consent of the Zhou family, the two pieces of land held by the Zhou family were recovered at the bidding price at that time, and re-auctioned together with the above seven pieces of land. The starting price is still 50,000 taels of silver.